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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Scotch preterit and past participle of hap.
  • noun A Scotch preterit and past participle of hap.

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Examples

  • You would think, James, that she would mind how she happit him from the cold of winter and sheltered him from the summer heats, and, when he began to find his footing, how she had an eye on a 'the beasts of the field and on the water and the fire that were become her enemies -- And to what purpose all this care?

    The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

  • "I'm saying she was naturally a bonny bit kimmer rather than happit up to the nines."

    The Little Minister 1898

  • "Tak 'yer lamb," said she, laughing at the contrivance; and so the Pet was first well happit up, and then put, laughing silently, into the plaid neuk, and the shepherd strode off with his lamb, -- Maida gambolling through the snow, and running races in her mirth.

    Stories of Childhood Various 1885

  • "Yon big man wes as pitifu 'an' gentle as a wumman, and when he laid the puir fallow in his bed again, he happit him ower as a mither dis her bairn."

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • "Yon big man wes as pitifu 'an' gentle as a wumman, and when he laid the puir fallow in his bed again, he happit him ower as a mither dis her bairn."

    A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 3 Ian Maclaren 1878

  • "Yon big man wes as pitifu 'an' gentle as a wumman, and when he laid the puir fallow in his bed again, he happit him ower as a mither dis her bairn."

    A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878

  • She wad threpe (insist) 'at I bude to hae keepit some o' the duds 'at happit Ma'colm MacPhail the reprobat, whan first he cam to the Seaton -- a puir scraichin' brat, as reid 's a bilet lobster.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • "Tak 'your lamb," said she, laughing at the contrivance, and so the Pet was first well happit up, and then put, laughing silently, into the plaid neuk, and the shepherd strode off with his lamb, -- Maida gamboling through the snow, and running races in her mirth.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • I couldna wish to dee better than just be happit i 'the waters o' my ain countryside, when my legs fail and I'm ower auld for the trampin '. "

    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

  • As Saunders said, "Afore auld Elec could get him happit, his

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

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